Revolt of
the Triffids (AKA The Day of the Triffids), John Wyndham *****

The Winter
Long, Seanan McGuire *****

Re-Birth,
John Wyndham ****

Death’s Dark
Domain (Doc Savage). Kenneth Robeson ***

Sandman
Slim, Richard Kadrey ****

Stowaway to
Mars, John Wyndham **.5

Lock In,
John Scalzi ****.5

Her Smoke
Rose Up Forever, James Tiptree, Jr. (finished)

The Pride of
Chanur, C.J. Cherryh *****

The Pritcher
Mass, Gordon R. Dickson **.5

Nova, Samuel
R. Delany ****

Chanur’s
Venture, C.J. Cherryh ****

The
Enceladus Crisis, Michael J. Martinez *****

Hmm.

I’ve got to
thank JfPowaloski for lending me his copy of Revenge of the Triffids, which was great, and also led me to some
other John Wyndham books.

The one
non-SF book on the list is Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent
Vice, a detective novel in the mold of Raymond Chandler. A combination of
Pynchon and Chandler is going to be weird, and this one lived up to the
promise. Confusing like Chandler, amusing like Pynchon, and confounding like
both of them. Possibly I should have rated it higher. Looking forward to the
movie.

I read Free Live Free, by Gene Wolfe, about 30
years ago, and didn’t quite get it at the time. But like Pynchon, Gene Wolfe is
never predictable, and pretty much everything he writes is worth reading.

The Night Stalker? I kept hearing Darren
McGavin’s voice as I read the book. But really, you should just watch the
movie.

Outlander. Just great. Can’t wait for
the DVDs to come from Netlfix, and to get the next book from the library.

Mission to Horatius. The first Star Trek
novel I ever read, actually before I’d really seen the original TV show. A
so-so novel, but it brought back memories.

Thanks, Jason,
for recommending the Sandman Slim
novels.

Nova, by Samuel Delany. Another book I
read a long time ago, but that meant a lot more to me now. Delany is a fantastic
writer.